Chicago Torture Justice Center

Communities Healing from Police Violence. Read the IL Murder Registry Impact Report #EndPerpetualViolence

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[Chicago Torture Justice Center @chitorture]

A is just one of 514 individuals we’ve provided free therapeutic support to. Services will always be free, but operational costs for just one month of therapy are roughly $12,000. We would not be able to do it without the strength of our community.

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[Chicago Torture Justice Center @chitorture]

The inaugural Resilience Arts Festival is soon!

We hope you'll join us for a weekend of powerful storytelling. All work presented at the festival was written by or in collaboration with incarcerated and formerly incarcerated artists.

RSVP at https://t.co/5SrVektlnI.

[Chicago Torture Justice Center @chitorture]

Stanley Howard spent 16 long years in solitary confinement. He wrote about it for the @Suntimes

#EndSolitaryConfinement

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[Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice @endmoneybond]

President Trump has issued an executive order aimed at forcing states that have ended or reduced the use of money bail in the pretrial process to reverse those policies.

Tell Governor Pritzker & your legislators to defend the Pretrial Fairness Act: https://t.co/ydpaO2d7ok

[Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice @endmoneybond]

We are disappointed but unsurprised to see President Trump once again calling to repeal the Pretrial Fairness Act & bring money bail back to IL.

We will not be bullied by a President who is more concerned with his public image than he is public safety. https://t.co/hh1knhjzZe

[Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice @endmoneybond]

Yesterday, the number of people incarcerated in Cook County Jail rose above 6,000 people for the first time since March 2022.

Learn more about how State’s Attorney Eileen O’Neill Burke is driving up pretrial jailing: https://t.co/6oD2mU3nHH

[Chicago Torture Justice Center @chitorture]

We have an unfortunate update about Victoria’s housing: the landlord has started the eviction process.

Victoria is only $1,000 away from reaching the required amount she needs to stay housed. Please donate so she can state housed!

https://t.co/2gDwIzugOl

[Chicago Torture Justice Center @chitorture]

While we can never predict how the state and its agents will act, there are ways we can prepare--whether or not you decide to hit the streets--to stay safe and connected to community.

We keep us safe, Chicago!

[Chicago Torture Justice Center @chitorture]

All protest comes with risk. Use our risk assessment guide to determine how best you can take action or show up for your friends and loved ones who are taking action.

[Chicago Torture Justice Center @chitorture]

The panel will be held at John Knox Hall inside of The First Presbyterian Church (6400 S. Kimbark), just down the block from CTJC's office, from 12-2pm.

Then we will celebrate at CTJC (6337 S. Woodlawn) with food and music from 2-6pm.

[Chicago Torture Justice Center @chitorture]

We've gathered a brilliant panel lineup to help us reflect on the 10th anniversary of reparations. Come for the panel and stay for the party after!

Join us at First Presbyterian Church on May 31st:
https://t.co/Vmu25em0KX

[Chicago Torture Justice Center @chitorture]

Introducing John Conroy, the investigative journalist who first unveiled police torture in Chicago in 1990.

Join us May 31st to hear directly from those involved in the fight and victory of reparations

https://t.co/Vmu25em0KX

[Chicago Torture Justice Center @chitorture]

Join us this Wednesday at the next Torture Inquiry Relief Commission (TIRC) to honor the life and legacy of Attorney Standish Willis, the founder of Black People Against Police Torture and the first attorney to call for reparations for survivors.

[Invisible Institute @invinst]

New video interviews with survivors Shawn Whirl and LaTanya Jenifor-Sublett are now part of the Chicago Police Torture Archive.

Each profile includes three short videos designed for educators and others teaching the history of police torture in Chicago.

[Chicago Torture Justice Center @chitorture]

10 years ago today, reparations were won in Chicago.

#reparations #chicago

[Invisible Institute @invinst]

Pictured are Burroughs Legacy team at the Chicago Torture Justice Center with CTJC Executive Director Aislinn Pulley and Carl Williams, Burroughs Legacy Project narrator.

Carl is a torture survivor, activist, and now the Community Engagement Specialist at @chitorture .

[Illinois Network for Pretrial Justice @endmoneybond]

We are deeply disturbed by Cook County State’s Attorney O’Neill Burke’s new policy requiring her attorneys to object when a judge denies a request for detention & instead orders someone to electronic monitoring.

Read our statement here: https://t.co/cfzazEDJLm

[Chicago Torture Justice Center @chitorture]

“When am I going to get my life back?”

Registries don't keep our communities safe, they keep people in a cycle of perpetual punishment. We're working on abolishing the IL Murder Registry, which affects over 8,000 people in Illinois.

https://t.co/4Y3r7BU5rb

[Chicago Torture Justice Center @chitorture]

Attention renters! You have rights!

Join us on Wednesday, April 2nd to learn when and how to write a 14-day demand letter to your landlord.

The training is free and open to all renters in the Chicago area.

Wednesday, April 2nd
5:30-7pm
6337 S. Woodlawn Ave.

[Charles Preston @_CharlesPreston]

THIS PLAY WAS EXCELLENT. I SEENT IT.